Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky. Penguin pb, 2025; first published 2024; 483 pp. I’m wary of novels with multiple story strands involving disparate characters and set in different periods. Turkish-British author Elif Shafak just about pulls off … Continue reading → The post Rivers in the Sky appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
Turkey Book Talk #252 – Amy Marie Spangler on the late great author Leyla Erbil’s What Remains. Amy co-translated the novel, along with Alev Ersan and Mark David Wyers, for an edition t…| Turkey Book Talk
Keeping the House is the 2021 debut novel of North Londoner Tice Cin (pronounced Teejah Djin, for anyone like me whose English tongue wanders towards what it looks like to us). Set amongst the Turk…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
C. Ceyhun Arslan introduces his recently published book "The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures" which challenges assumptions about the modernization of Arabic and Turkish literatures, examining their evolution into national literatures comparable to Western ones. The book explores how Ottoman authors navigated multilingual influences, shaping literary traditions and national identities in the Middle East and North Africa. It highlights how late Ottoman and p...| TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
